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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

His father's murder is still technically unsolved all of these years later, although people now feel like it's very likely this one guy. There's a good amount of evidence.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

His father's murder is still technically unsolved all of these years later, although people now feel like it's very likely this one guy. There's a good amount of evidence.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

His father's murder is still technically unsolved all of these years later, although people now feel like it's very likely this one guy. There's a good amount of evidence.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yes. And it was the guy who was in prison who he could have wiretapped and didn't. He's the most likely suspect in having killed Earl Warren's dad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yes. And it was the guy who was in prison who he could have wiretapped and didn't. He's the most likely suspect in having killed Earl Warren's dad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yes. And it was the guy who was in prison who he could have wiretapped and didn't. He's the most likely suspect in having killed Earl Warren's dad.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think you're right that first of all, it is better to have a guilty man free than an innocent man imprisoned. You might think to yourself, yeah, I agree with that. But I think in times like today, that's a big ask for some people. People would rather be safe. Yeah. And if that means putting in some innocent people in prison, then that's the choice they're going to make. Do you agree?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think you're right that first of all, it is better to have a guilty man free than an innocent man imprisoned. You might think to yourself, yeah, I agree with that. But I think in times like today, that's a big ask for some people. People would rather be safe. Yeah. And if that means putting in some innocent people in prison, then that's the choice they're going to make. Do you agree?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I think you're right that first of all, it is better to have a guilty man free than an innocent man imprisoned. You might think to yourself, yeah, I agree with that. But I think in times like today, that's a big ask for some people. People would rather be safe. Yeah. And if that means putting in some innocent people in prison, then that's the choice they're going to make. Do you agree?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you see what I'm saying there?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you see what I'm saying there?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do you see what I'm saying there?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah, I agree with you. And I think it's really easy when you are operating from a position of fear. In some cases, a fear for their own safety, a fear for their own livelihood, their way of life or their religious whatever. They feel like, well, you know, sometimes that's the way it works. They don't

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah, I agree with you. And I think it's really easy when you are operating from a position of fear. In some cases, a fear for their own safety, a fear for their own livelihood, their way of life or their religious whatever. They feel like, well, you know, sometimes that's the way it works. They don't

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah, I agree with you. And I think it's really easy when you are operating from a position of fear. In some cases, a fear for their own safety, a fear for their own livelihood, their way of life or their religious whatever. They feel like, well, you know, sometimes that's the way it works. They don't

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

extend that idea to its logical conclusion that sometimes in a system run by fallible humans it does mean that guilty people will walk free but that we have to err on the side of not incarcerating or putting to death somebody who there's even a small chance of being innocent when push comes to shove and it's your own family and it's your own community people have a really hard time well we're

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

extend that idea to its logical conclusion that sometimes in a system run by fallible humans it does mean that guilty people will walk free but that we have to err on the side of not incarcerating or putting to death somebody who there's even a small chance of being innocent when push comes to shove and it's your own family and it's your own community people have a really hard time well we're

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

extend that idea to its logical conclusion that sometimes in a system run by fallible humans it does mean that guilty people will walk free but that we have to err on the side of not incarcerating or putting to death somebody who there's even a small chance of being innocent when push comes to shove and it's your own family and it's your own community people have a really hard time well we're

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Yeah. Yeah.